We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless

In order to achieve anything, you must be brave enough to fail.

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.